Politics As Usual: Shale, Vouchers, Budgets And Lots Of Hemingway.

See What A Little Peer Pressure ... ... can accomplish? Thanks to the urgings of a particularly enthusiastic listener, we've resurrected the slumbering giant that is Pennsylvania's Favorite Political Podcast, and we're back with a new season of meanderings on politics, policy, grilling, sports trivia and lots and lots of oversharing.

In this week's edition, hosts John Micek of The Morning Call and Scott Detrow of Pennsylvania Public Radio look ahead to next week's expected House vote on a key component of school choice; the expected unveiling of the House Republican budget and a Senate Republican plan to impose an impact fee on natural gas drillers.

We'd like to talk about Democrats but there's now like, what?, only 12 of them in the whole building and the most they can do is try to stop Rep. Daryl Metcalfe from banning all the stuff he doesn't like.

Which is most everything.

In any case: Sit back, pour yourself an adult beverage and turn up the volume on the hi-fi for our signature blend of in-depth insight and utterly juvenile behavior. You can listen live in your browser or download the file to your hard drive for hours of fun.